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I must change arms at home and give the distaff Into my husband's hands.
No, it was the race after the Distaff in 1990.
She has had a useful prep for the Distaff and should finally be back on her game.
She picked up her distaff and flung it at his head.
He looked much happier now that the distaff Q was gone.
He had never heard the distaff version of that concept; was there one?
They will meet a final time in the Distaff.
Editor of Distaff, the magazine for any and every woman, circulation over eight million.
This brought a barrage of food in his direction, all from distaff members.
The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff.
That means running her in the Distaff instead of the Classic.
The press is thrilled at the prospect of distaff races.
The Distaff shapes up as one of the day's most contested races.
The distaff is a better weapon for you than the scimitar!
The woman prepared supper for them both, at this was the function of the available distaff.
Reed said yesterday she would run in the Distaff.
Our use of the distaff is merely more sophisticated than what you have known before."
Given the quality of this year's fillies, the Distaff can hardly be called an easy way out.
The Distaff is the most intriguing race on the card, and possibly the least meaningful.
She placed the distaff on her trunk and said, "I'm coming too.
Suddenly I looked up and saw the old woman with her distaff, sitting in the sun on the steps of a tenement house.
He held a distaff in his hand and spun hemp fibers.
The distaff, or rock, used in spinning was the medieval symbol of women's work.
For example, the "Expert" level does not mark the distaff and is played solely by ear.
As an adjective the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a family.